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1. A very light brown.
5. Weapons considered collectively.
9. The granite-like rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust.
13. English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882).
14. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or Scotland or the Isle of Man.
15. A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
16. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
17. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
18. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
19. Thick like cream.
21. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
23. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
25. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
26. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
33. An Indian side dish of yogurt and chopped cucumbers and spices.
36. A port city in eastern Mexico.
39. British writer of novels who was born in India.
42. The upper house of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
43. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
44. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
45. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
46. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
48. Cut the head of.
51. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
53. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
54. The capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
58. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
61. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
62. The seventh and last day of the week.
63. A port city in southwestern Iran.
64. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm.
65. A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.
66. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
67. A young woman making her debut into society.
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1. Surpassing the ordinary especially in size or scale.
2. A human female who does housework.
3. Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside).
4. A member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas.
5. How long something has existed.
6. Disparaging terms for the common people.
7. Large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit.
8. A caustic detergent useful for removing grease.
9. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
10. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a mosque.
11. A French abbot.
12. Characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity.
20. A state in New England.
22. The subject matter of a conversation or discussion.
24. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
27. The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
28. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
30. (Babylonian) A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
31. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
32. The closing section of a musical composition.
34. A feudal lord or baron in Scotland.
35. A public promotion of some product or service.
37. United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993).
38. A genus of Ploceidae.
40. Tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems.
41. Continuing forever or indefinitely.
47. An imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children.
48. A state in New England.
49. A member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska.
50. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
52. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
53. A state in northwestern North America.
55. One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
56. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
57. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
59. Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates.
60. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
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